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"Writing provides essential spaces for the future of declaring: spaces that are integral to those expressing their stories.  What about the humans who do not identify in this clear, precise, accessible way?  For humans who do not fit into the either-or model, the dominant culture’s required structures do not offer us a space.  The future of writing our bodies must consider how our bodies speak.  This process cannot be a re-imagination of the current writing structures because our bodies do not exist there at all (neither in writing as process or as product).  Instead, the process must be imagination as activism.  This revolutionary process requires us to be in a constant state of genesis.  It asks this question: “What is it to always be in a position of beginning?”  The current dominant structure cannot provide any support in this genesis because the genesis depends on what happens when a body does not adhere to the dominant culture’s dogma. In this non-adherence, we have nothing in which to ground ourselves, or root in for the purpose of building our bodies.  Our bodies need to be built because they have no genealogy in the spectra of representation in the dominant culture (both in current day and historically ).  It is through this active imagination process that we create new positions and methods of declaration."

--- j/j hastain, 2007

I found this except from the website of a Trans activist/theorist/artist. web.mac.com/tjs0108/http%3A__www.jjhastain.com/Transbody_Excerpt.html  I thought it was interesting how this could apply to queerness and/or disability.